Show NEVADAS wm MINING CAMPS permanent character of the gold veins VISITORS TO THE COMSTOCK bicycle tourists much intel interest ca t taken en la in the brunswick lode lod mountain ClIm climbert bere bud and camplis comstock ores among the gold bolts belts senator 1 I P jones on oil the comstock corn john W mackay expected colt col i virginia city nov nev july 15 2995 of 0 lato late there havo have boco been more visitors to tile the comstock Coin stocK from rom both basl and west than before in tho the last your year or two this Is doubtless owing in part to tho the new departure made lit in starling ng development work on tho the drum ick lode tho the new work beems to have caused a revival of interest lit in the comstock it lit is beginning to bo be seen that lit in the Diun swick eln and lit in the drain drifts to american Ameil can flat and devils gate there are arc still great poa 1309 lit in connection with the old lode indeed the hie sutro tunnel and its bran branches c bee anti and the deep works on an the main comstock lode afford accord advantageous starting points from which to lo explore larlue areas of adjoining country lying within the mineral belt the development elop ment of the system of goldbe gold be bear a r frig veins in the country immediately west weist ot of the comstock 0 of which nothing Is being said bald at present Is a proposition that hat promises quite as well as ad the other enterprises now more aromi 1 before the public this west country could be very advantageously explored front from the deep levels ol of the ophar or mexican mines the work of oc developing the aruns wick vein Is being carried along without in tire the least cast interfering with operations in the mines on the tha main lode work on the brunswick will never nt it any time interfere with work on the comstock however much ore may be found in the former the brunswick Brunsw lck will soon have a water system of its own A survey has haa been made and the wor woric c of c construction 0 will at once be crocie proceeded eor ed with A main will bo laid from this city to tire tho vein with branches to the several mines from to ao feet of fall fail can call be obtained at the different points where the brunswick Is be belner C opened with pelton pellon vt wheels heels this will m ill vivo give plenty plent y of power for running hoisting and other machu machin cry there Is no reason K try liy leading companies on the main comstock should not take a hand band in the development of the Brun brunswick vein tor for it belongs to the comstock system of fissures it to la the front or nr most easterly vein of the system ys ern the comstock Cor lode does not congest consist of a single crack filled with vein matter but of numerous parallel cracks or fissures fissure within a fairly well defined belt tile the whole what the german miners call a gang gane tug each company of tho the lode carries carrier its name to tho the ground I 1 it Is developing on the brunswick Brunsw lck this Is a small move compared with some that are being made mad in those days an english ish company in this state bought mining ing ground in south africa and then jumped over to that country with all its ili stockholders and other movable assets A company in central america did the soma same thing ALL alij THO WORLD ON WHEELS A considerable number of 0 recent visitors to the comstock have come on wheels and there have been about as many women as men the th majority corn come up front from reno but not a few come down from lake tahoe and some squarely over the sierras liven even from reno tile the way Is not easy as there Is the long and steep sleep geiger grade crado to climb woman seems no longer to be b the weaker vessel when rhe mounts her bike she ehe appears to be able to hold her own with the lords of creation A considerable number of globe trotters are now spinning along on bicycles all tho the world will soon be on wheels wheel sand and in trousers in this city there to la a dally daily increase of wheels and women in various styles of bifurcated unmentionables arc AM abroad in InE gangs angs alven the have the craze and aro are wild for tho the wheel after all this Is a poor held field tor for the wheel all our cross streets are too steep to be navigated and only to or three of the others afford good running ground th the e first snows of winter will put an end to all the bicycle fun in this place then the horse horde and the sleigh will bo be in demand and the keepers tit of livery stables will again be been to smile now horses homes and carriages biages are in very little demand except tor for bunei funerals als the I 1 kikes bikes have not yet yo t appeared in funeral processions professions process ions OFF FOR THE MOUNTAINS A hot wave Is sending many of our people to tho the high sierras the ana majority RO no to lake X abc tahoe those mho aiho RO go intending to make a long stay nearly all tiko take tents velh them and will camp out in the leg secular ullar old tony forty nine milne style the campers are generally family parties and they go EO provided for a ramble of from four our to six weeks in the wilds they will wilk find plenty of 0 brook trout and some borne small game but a are r 0 not likely to see BOO many litany deer arid and will p probably r be obliged to imagine the bear a and nd mountain llona lions tho the women enjoy camp life quite as heartily as do the tha old prospectors who usually lead head tire camping expeditious expeditions with avith a party that left hero here a day or two neo ago nor went eco tit it a lounia n ir lady of 0 the san sail at it this warm I 1 a indess season thero there Is in no great handsh hardship lp in tent jiro on the brooks amid the ter proves roven of pine and nr ile in the F sierras it Is not nol much like the carroll life experienced by the women who alio crossed the P plains lains in the early dayn when the women of forty nine left the alkali deserts and ascended to the green breen groves arid and bright waters of the sierra they felt as though tho the gates gatea of paradise were opening before them behind them lay tile teat great and before them tile tho golden valleys of california COMSTOCK MINES the ore ora extracted by leading corn cam a took companion companies Is holboll g out well in value tile tho average avenge of 0 th the econ con cal virginia Is a u ton on oft tho the ISSO I 1 level they real to bo be getting into a new bif w body of ore they find quartz quart at this point that ASSAYS from IS 8 to ID 10 a ton with room roona ahead for or a large bonanza at ibe the old ophir they have found in a porphyry formation borne boino small streaks mi aralts ot of ore that aay ad 20 a ton these thee streaks or atre a liable to lead to r large deposit of 0 we ore the chollar or now flow being worked averages averaged 41 iton in tho the potosi they have r nt found a esix toot foot streak or of ore on the h e level that essays assays from 13 1 to uon tau u ton in the savage tit th huo hi n now streak of orp ore that av aarif r oi en ci 73 7 lo is a I 1 tn 11 ll the ore extracted ut it ill ellch r an 12 17 anil and ill it 1 I 1 r in if t ali 1 i belcher SUN tl C 1 l n 1 1 u ini i yielding r I 1 I 1 ill jr n 0 cli il 8 r ih f iii i 8 to a i th 1 r 11 I 1 i mi liv gold i n AL a i th jun jui run un an jugi ed I 1 1 it I 1 ui ill in ill it 0 inn inar min rr pr pe ile tin tim li if active with more or I 1 aca vi ill n tirl tarl it il in might the and 0 conf bite r tr te 0 other comp comelini com panli lini i that ill I 1 stiv i tn in liht dalit aro are not at 11 for ut nt trat ln in or ir IDI DJ vili S C GOLD BELT BEIT otis om I 1 i it la ill I 1 I 1 it II at 6 11 ll IJ 1 1 11 uth ili tin n i lit 11 i 11 ip P i li b in it to n t r i 11 it 1 T r th rin r in it A haill I 1 ins or it II rr I 1 i ito hi p airall 1 I 1 ti ill hi nn in 3 1 it i and i every on ot of chivil tho more inore or 14 1 I 1 cold these mines tire are important in that they show the permanence of 0 th kold gold bea rinar veins or of nevada I 1 at silver city ore are the oldena mines in the state stat there are mine in that tha e camp el rely that have been worked tor for over thirty 11 years today to day tho the mines of that place are arc paying better than ever lo 10 fore bali and old As a the camp rit about as ae many now new discoveries are belaj be I 1 ax made there as anywhere in nevada paying ore Is there found ot at and benr the our aur face the owner of a mine Is not constantly e in pay ore but he averaged well dellla is not usually long in barren rook rock tho the old timers there know their mines and tire arc not at it all uneasy it they are arc for a time in quart that dor does not pay imy long as the mines mine or of the district have been worked work crl they have attained no groat depth some are of tile the to that the many gurvace surface la Is it a great mother lode but bill no one ilan yet gone fronc to a depth to ind find such auch lode lod when a IMPI drift Is for tun lun from the sutro tunnel something of tit ahr kind may be found OUTSIDE GOLD COLD CAMPS good reports are arc received from the sold gold camps in the middle and cattern parts of cic tile state all to la going well at do de lamar arid and new discoveries are being mado made in robinson district arid and other paaren in tho lie kold gold belt lying along alone the western n line ot of utah the mont gom ly mines to the southward it in the death vally region rf flon continue to pay well and rally may bp be set act down as among the mot producers silver reak Is being resurrected and now mills will be operated on oil the paying void frold veins of that old time district at SU sit ver Is wen well A brick worth crime come in to the carson mint a day or two ago from one of the I 1 nines of that growing young camp in ili hawthorne hawthorn all the miners 1 are doing well the custom mills anre kept in constant rons tont operation by the owners cr of small mines mont of the ore obtained from thi the small email veins Is of 0 high glade running from 1100 to amo a aton ton tn in gold boll the mines of this disked triet have lave linen been war worked for no nearly arl Y twenty years the bonanzas on the small mail being though not large with great regularity the mines of it pine orlove or rove forty miles north of aurora rim Uto oralda meraldo county are gold bold pro and the veins are of large size they have been worked tor for twenty nine years yeara and are still all brodu producing ing well the ore pays from 13 to W a fort THE SILVER CHAMPION senator J P jones and wife and their daught daughters erx alfs afloat and miss georgeana Geor glana jorn Jor left ti arrived on the comstock last sunday and took up their residence in gold at the oll 01 1 family mansion with them came un lon hamilton and bis big daughter miss cornolia cornelia hamilton I 1 mot lon today to day in this ib oily city ills 11 Is sojourn in the east has thoroughly ari 0 him I 1 he Is now nov looks younger than he did to ten n years ago when he be left here lie ile was wa pretty well bagged fagged out lie he showed the pressure of the lower levels tin as do most of tile the old superintendents and mine foremon foremen senator jones has bas not yet vis visited tied this city however ho he has only been at the nut mansion nalon one day mr air hamilton gays ay all hands were delighted to be once more in th the ou old family residence tho the place Is not a paradise but it was once one of the treasure houses of the quarries nu arrles and the scene of many wild millions on millions have been lost arid and won by those who mined the rich bonanzas of gold old and silver that lay deep beneath the narrow and crowded streets of the little town the senator senat or will be heartily welcomed by all tile the old timers of the corn com stock he Is reported rep 0 arted to be in elc excellent of health and Is likely to be long lone in 1 n ills held field to fight the good fight of the toilers boilers of the land against the heartless greed of the plutocracy he ha la is one who will keep lt p th the faith to the tha last and his works will live after him MAY COME it Is thought likely that john NT mackay may rive give us a call on his way back to the najt east from alaska should ho he come lie would find himself at home here ills his oss at t thoss the con virginia Is just as he left it ills ilia chair stands at his desk and seated in it he will find all as much in fit place about him as though he hall had not been absent an hour there axe no changed in tb the but in the mines beneath M mr r mackay would soon find himself lost there he h would newl need the guidance of superintendent tinman liman all the old timers hope to see sec mr mackay on the Comstock after lie lias has taken in the wonders of alaska should lie he ask ills his old graybeards gray beards of the comstock to go up to alaska and drive a tunnel into the mirror glacier they would roll up their heir blankets and report themselves ready to ret pot out at once DAN DE QUILLS QUILLE |